Division tactics and preserving science in the majority-exploiter First World May 28, 2007

Division tactics and preserving science in the majority-exploiter First World
Originally posted to IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Monday, 2007 May 28
May 9, 2007
Scientific communists in the First World are faced with the difficult and complicated task of needing to influence public opinion among a majority-exploiter population. The approach with the majority as a whole can only be [...]

Anti-globalization or anti-imperialism? May 27, 2007

Anti-globalization or anti-imperialism?
Originally posted to IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Sunday, 2007 May 27
A revolutionary dialectical scientific method is the guiding principle of effective division work. This is one reason why there needs to be some form of party-building-type work or at least individual science-building among comrades in the majority-exploiter First World. The primacy of the division [...]

Internecine Eastern European infighting or imperialism? May 16, 2007

Internecine Eastern European infighting or imperialism?
Originally posted to IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Wednesday, 2007 May 16
Drawing too much distinction between The Corporation and u.$.-led NATO could be splitting hairs in some cases. Indeed, even domestically in the united $tates NATO and the CIA, openly as well as in illegal ways, both manipulate politics. As pro-Russia advocates [...]

Psywar nothing new May 7, 2007

Psywar nothing new
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Monday, 2007 May 7
The New York Times, itself an outlet for propaganda and in fact CIA- and Pentagon-generated content, reported on unclassified documents supposedly showing the military deliberately made an inaccurate news release about the late November, 2005, massacre in Haditha, Iraq, by Marines.(1) The inaccurate release [...]

Book review: Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood May 6, 2007

Traditional liberalism shows some promise compared to piecemeal anti-war politics
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Sunday, 2007 May 6
Gordon S. Wood
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
New York: The Penguin Press, 2006
336 pp. hc.
Revolutionary Characters is mostly a collection of previously published material. Throughout, it makes several arguments controversial among historians. The chapters expressing the [...]

Female military service makes some exploiters uncomfortable May 5, 2007

Female military service makes some exploiters uncomfortable
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Saturday, 2007 May 5
Right before Iran detained the fifteen British soldiers in March, and before Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad pointed out Faye Turney was a mother and suggested the West didn’t respect family values and managed to whip up the debate about wimmin [...]

Elites stir up “ho” question in post-Imus backlash April 25, 2007

Elites stir up “ho” question in post-Imus backlash
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Sunday, 2007 April 15
Gender is normally related to a large amount of people’s conversation and discussion in the media, perhaps disproportionate to the number of events reported in the media. However, discussion of the word “ho” outside the context of Imus’ comments, [...]

Music review: Brother Ali’s Uncle Sam Goddamn April 25, 2007

Brother Ali’s new video, Uncle Sam Goddamn
reviewed by rwp (originally posted to IRTR: https://irtr.info/forums/vtopic2927.html, slightly edited)
From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to amerikans supporting a “billion-dollar-a-week kill-brown-people habit,” Brother Ali rather accurately sums up the united $nakes.
Brother Ali gets it wrong, however, when he says it is amerikans who are paying for [...]

Wrong ideas about standard of living raised after Yeltsin’s death April 23, 2007

Wrong ideas about standard of living raised after Yeltsin’s death
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Monday, 2007 April 23
“He was overwhelmed by what he saw at a Houston supermarket, by the kaleidoscopic variety of meats and vegetables available to ordinary Americans.”(1)
“According to one report Yeltsin had voiced widely held popular grievances about ordinary Russians’ standard [...]

Oppressor rhetoric about sex and ho’s a danger to Third World nations April 13, 2007

Oppressor rhetoric about sex and ho’s a danger to Third World nations
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Friday, 2007 April 13
With the charges against the Duke lacrosse players being dropped, there is a perfect storm of oppressor thinking about sex and gender. Third World people facing imperialist invasion or currently at war with imperialism will [...]

U$ elites raise “ho” question while attacking Afghanistan and Islamic Third World nations over wimmin again April 12, 2007

U$ elites raise “ho” question while attacking Afghanistan and Islamic Third World nations over wimmin again
Originally published on IRTR (https://irtr.org/articles) on Thursday, 2007 April 12
Primarily bursting out against the Black nation, u.$. broadcaster Don Imus called the Black players on the Rutgers University wimmin’s basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s,” and Bernard McGuirk said the NCAA championship [...]

Again on the “RIM” Renegades in Nepal December 21, 2006

 
Again on the “RIM” Renegades in Nepal

 

“What is fake is fake. Strip off the disguise!” –Mao Zedong, Instruction, 1967

 

 

“We must be good at distinguishing fake supporters of the revolution who are actually reactionaries and douse them away from all our battle fronts, so that we may preserve the victories which are already won and will [...]

Clues to help you find out if someone is a revisionist October 17, 2006

(Most of this list was compiled from several IRTR participants: http://irtr.org/forums/vtopic2239.html in October of 2006, a couple have been added by MSH July 4, 2007)
Revisionism never wears a “Kick Me I’m A Revisionist” sign.
What are some clues that someone is a a revisionist, Trotskyist, CIA lackey, or just plain not scientific?
Some of these clues apply [...]

Disband the RIM October 16, 2006

[MSH: Also see our comments on the Islamic upsurge and Shubel Morgan video on Bob Avakian]
[This document has been edited by MSH to remove a single reference to a certain wrecking ball organization that is no longer relevant — MSH Oct. 17, 2007]
[This document was slightly edited to make it more readable for international readers [...]

KKKolumbus Day (2006) October 2, 2006

 
Maoists Oppose Celebration of White KKKonquest
by It’s Right To Rebel
irtr.org
Once again amerikans in Denver, Colorado, plan to celebrate the legacy of KKKristopher KKKolumbus on Saturday, Oct. 7th, 2006. The celebration of KKKolumbus Day is a celebration of white conquest. After all, KKKristopher KKKolumbus was a slave trader, adventurer, and conquistador who spearheaded the white settler [...]